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 CIS NO: 84-H381-30
 TITLE: Human Rights in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+184 p.
 DATE: Oct. 4, 21, 1983
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 98-1              SUDOC: Y4.F76/1:H88/30
 ITEM NO: 1017-A; 1017-B
 LC CARD NO: 84-602180               MC ENTRY NO: 84-13881

 Hearings before the Subcom on Human Rights and International Organizations
 and the Subcom on Western Hemisphere Affairs to examine human rights
 conditions in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights conditions in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay,
     and Uruguay
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND
     INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. HOUSE; SUBCOM ON WESTERN HEMISPHERE
     AFFAIRS. HOUSE; HUMAN RIGHTS (Latin Amer nations human rights
     conditions); ARGENTINA (Human rights conditions, assessment); CHILE
     (Human rights conditions, assessment); PARAGUAY (Human rights
     conditions, assessment); URUGUAY (Human rights conditions, assessment)

 84-H381-30 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Oct. 4, 1983 p. 2-139
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     GAER, FELICE D. (exec dir, Intl League for Human Rights)
     NEIER, ARYEH (vice chm, Amers Watch Committee)
     STOVER, ERIC (US section, Amnesty Intl)
     GRIESGRABER, JO M. (dep dir, Washington Office on Latin Amer)
     SIGMUND, PAUL E. (politics prof and dir, Latin Amer studies program,
        Princeton Univ)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Assessment of human rights and political
     conditions in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay; importance of
     efforts to account for persons who disappeared in Argentina during
     repression; prospects for nonmilitary, democratic government in
     countries; concerns about disappearances, torture and other mistreatment
     of prisoners, and arbitrary detentions and executions.
       Recommendations for U.S. relations with and policy toward Argentina,
     Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay; suggestions regarding congressional and
     U.S. action to promote human rights in each country; review of recent
     political developments in Chile affecting human rights.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights conditions in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay,
     and Uruguay
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL;
     INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS; AMERICAS WATCH COMMITTEE;
     WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA; POLITICAL PRISONERS; CAPITAL
     PUNISHMENT; ARREST; VIOLENCE; CONGRESS (Human rights promotion in
     Latin Amer, suggestions for congressional actions); FOREIGN.RELATIONS
     (Latin Amer nations human rights conditions improvement, US actions
     recommendations)

 84-H381-30 TESTIMONY NO: 2         Oct. 21, 1983 p. 142-184
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     ABRAMS, ELLIOTT (Asst Sec, Human Rights and Humanitarian Aff, State
        Dept)
     MICHEL, JAMES H. (Dep Asst Sec, Inter-Amer Aff, State Dept)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Assessment of human rights and political
     conditions in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights conditions in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay,
     and Uruguay
 DESCRIPTORS: DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE